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United  States  Department  of  Agriculture 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 


ORDER  RESTRICTING  THE  IMPORTATION  OF 
ANIMAL  CASINGS 

Effective  on  and  after  December  1,  1927 


In  order  to  guard  against  the  introduction  into  the  United  States  of  animal 
casings  bearing  the  contagion  of  contagious,  infectious,  or  communicable 
diseases  of  animals,  it  is  hereby  ordered,  under  authority  of  the  act  of  Con- 
gross  approved  February  2,  1903  (32  Stat,  791),  that  no  animal  casings  shall 
be  admitted  into  the  United  States  from  any  foreign  country  unless  and  until 
they  are  accompanied  by  a  certificate  bearing  the  signature  of  the  national 
Government  official  having  jurisdiction  over  the  health  of  animals  in  the 
country  in  which  the  casings  originated.  The  certificate  shall  be  in  the  follow- 
ing form : 

FOREIGN  OFFICIAL  CERTIFICATE  FOR  ANIMAL  CASINGS 

Place Date  

(city)  (country) 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  animal  casings  herein  described  were  derived  from 
healthy  animals  (cattle,  sheep,  swine,  or  goats),  which  received  ante-mortem 
and  post-mortem  veterinary  inspections  at  the  time  of  slaughter,  are  clean  and 
sound,  and  were  prepared  and  handled  only  in  a  sanitary  manner  and  were  not 
subjected  to  contagion  prior  to  exportation. 

Kind  of  casings  Number  of  packages  Weight 


Identification  marks  on  the  packages 

Consignor Address 

Consignee Destination. 

Shipping  marks 


(Signature) (Signature) 

(Official  issuing  the  certificate)  (Official  of  the  national  gov- 

ernment having  jurisdic- 
tion over  the  health  of 
animals  in  the  country  in 
which  the  casings  origi- 
nated) 

(Official  title)   (Official  title)   


Animal  casings  which  are  unaccompanied  by  the  required  certificate,  those 
shipped  in  sheepskins  or  other  skins  as  containers,  and  those  found  upon  in- 
spection to  be  unclean  or  unsound  when  offered  for  importation  into  the  United 

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States,  shall  be  kept  in  customs  custody  until  exported  or  destroyed,  or  until 
disinfected  and  denatured  as  prescribed  by  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal 
Industry. 

This  older,  which  for  the  purpose  of  identification  is  designated  as  B.  A.  I. 
Order  305,  shall  become  effective  on  December  1,  1927. 

Done  at  Washington  this  7th  day  of  March,  1927. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture. 

W.  M.  Jardine, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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